Re: MacOS X and yaboot wars.

Interestingly enough, I noticed this tidbit in their BootX script:

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if 0 0 then











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Implying that they may be doing something with ext2 support.

You "tidbit" was empty ;)

They have indeed ext2 support in their "BootX". They have ELF support.
They have almost everything needed to boot the Linux kernel as well. I
need to implement the necessary support in the kernel itself to get it
working.

The only major problem I've got is that whenever I boot plain old
MacOS by itself, it ruthlessly deblesses the MacOS X partition,
rendering it unable to boot.  I have to use System Disk if I want to
boot into MacOS X again, and since it blows away my boot-device
setting I have to force the machine into OF to set it again if I want
to use the ofboot boot menu.  Annoying, but not a new problem.

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At 12:16 PM +0200 9/23/00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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Interestingly enough, I noticed this tidbit in their BootX script:

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if 0 0 then


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Implying that they may be doing something with ext2 support.

You "tidbit" was empty ;)

It sure didn't look that way when I wrote it in Eudora!  And in fact
it made it through to Ethan Benson, who was CC'ed.  Maybe the mailing
list software mangled it.

Bizarre.

They have indeed ext2 support in their "BootX". They have ELF support.
They have almost everything needed to boot the Linux kernel as well. I
need to implement the necessary support in the kernel itself to get it
working.

Cool!  Do you know if their "BootX" is under their open source license?

  Tim Seufert

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